Panic sets in
as I realize
there will be NO NETWORK!
Panic!
Debilitating, all prevailing panic!
I cannot check my mails,
I cannot read the messages
my family and friends
will so obviously continue to send.
I can stare at my laptop all I want,
but nothing new will come off it.
Nothing. Unless…I create it.
What if
all hell breaks lose?
There comes a serious escalation,
or a problem
only I can solve?
What if someone needs me?
Because I will never know!
What if
My boss needs a document?
My Mom falls sick?
Or my cat…dies?
I will be disconnected,
totally, completely
from the happenings around the globe.
There could be another pandemic;
another war…or truce?
What if….what if…?
What am I to do?
What am I to do?
But what if
nothing happens?
The mobile beeps
but I don’t have to drop
whatever I am doing
to check what happened?
What if I settle
into the rhythm of the sea?
What if I allow
the deep, molten blue
to wash away all my blues?
Disconnected from the ever connected,
ever-happening, buzzing world,
I become one with the elements –
Shimmering like the wave crests
in the unhindered sun.
Carefree as the fishes
flitting in the expanse.
Infinite as the sky,
Definite as the horizon.
Partaking in the dance of the universe,
poised as the shoal of dolphins.
And thus disconnected,
I find my connection?